One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.